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APPLICATION FILED SEPT 22, 1902.

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ilNrrEn STATES PATENT QEFIGE.

FREDERICK A. READ, OF WEST HADDONFIELD, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO GERALDINE READ, OF WEST HADDONFIELD, NEW JERSEY, TRADING AS PHILADELPHIA PAPER COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

PAPER BAG.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 717,621, dated January 6, 1903.

Application filed eptemher 22, 1902. Serial No. 124,323- lNo model.)

To all whono zit petty concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK A. READ, a citizen of the United States, residing at West Haddonfield, in the county of Camden and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper Bags, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to a bag made from paper or similar material; and in such 1:: connection it relates'to the construction and arrangement of a bag for inclosing trunks and other analogous articles or structures.

The principal object of my invention is to provide a bag having a flat base or bottom [5 united to a rectangular tube and especially adapted to cover packages having rectangular sides and endssuch as trunks, valises, or the like-430 protect the same in shipping or storing.

To this end my invention consists, primarily, of a rectangular tube formed from a single sheet of paper or the like having its ends pasted along one of the sides of the tube and a bottom or base formed of a second sheet of paper and united to the tube, the opposite side ends of the tube being infolded, so that the tube may be flattened and folded down upon the bottom or base of the bag, if required.

The nature and scope of my present invention will be more fully understood from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, in which- Figure 1 is aperspective View of the tubular portion of the bag embodying main features of myinvention and of the base or bottom detached from the tubular portion. Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the bag wholly distended. Fig. 3 is an end elevational View of the bag, showing the tubular portion partly collapsed. Fig. 4 is a similar view showing the tube wholly collapsed. Fig. 5 is a perspective View ofthe bag, showing the tubular 4 5 portion wholly collapsed and folded down flat upon the bottom; and Figsfd and 7 are detail views illustrating the connection between the bottom of the bag and the sides and corners of the tubular portion of the bag.

Referring to the drawings, (t represents the base or bottom of the bag, consisting of preferably a rectangular sheet of paper or analogous material. The tubular portion 19 of the bag consists of a single sheet of paper or the like folded at four portions to form a rectangular tube and having its ends overlapping, as at b, and pastedtogether along one of the rectangular sides of the bag. The tube 19 thus constructed has two larger rectangular sides and two smaller rectangular ends. The ends are creased along a medial line b'flextending at rightangles to the base of the tube to the point b which is above the base or bottom 00 of the bag a distance corresponding to about one-half the width of the ends of the tube. The ends are now creased along the diverging lines I) and b to the corners of the tube b. The sides of the tube are also creased along the lines b and 12 As a result of the infolding of the ends of the bag along the lines b b and b and the sides along the lines b and b the tubular portion of the bag may be collapsed to assume successively the positions illustrated in Figs. 3, 4, and 5. In the position illustrated in Fig. 4 the upper portion of the tube 1) projects at right angles from the lower portion,whicl1 is infolded and flattened down upon the base or bottom a. In Fig. 5 the upright upper portion of the tube is further flattened down into a plane parallel with the base or bottom a.

In Figs. 6 and 7 the connection between the lower open end of the tube b and the bottom a is illustrated in detail. It consists in forming two side flaps by infolding the lower edges 19 of the two longer sides of the tube b after the tube has been collapsed, as illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5, then inserting the bottom a, into the grooves formed by these in folded edges b ,and thereafter pasting the bot- 0 tom a to the lower edge of the ends of the tube, as at b, and finally pasting the flaps formed by the infolded edges down upon the under face of the bottom 0:.

Having thus described the nature and objectof my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A bag, comprising a tube formed from a IO site side ends of the tube being creased so that the ends may be infolded and the tube flattened down upon the bottom.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

FREDERICK A. READ.

I Witnesses:

J. WALTER DOUGLASS, THOMAS M. SMITH. 

